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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






2. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






3. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






4. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






5. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






6. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






7. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






8. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






9. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






10. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






11. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






12. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






13. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






14. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






15. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






16. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






17. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






18. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






19. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






20. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






21. Graphic display of schedule related information.






22. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






23. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






24. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






25. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






26. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






27. Significant point or event in the project






28. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






29. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






30. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






31. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






32. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






33. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






34. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






35. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






36. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






37. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






38. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






39. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






40. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






41. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






42. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






43. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






44. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






45. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






46. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






47. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






48. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






49. Provider of products - services or results






50. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)